# Your Favorite Fictional Weapons? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 21, 2005, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921 "2005-01-21T15:45:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![KJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b2d939/32.png) [@KJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KJ)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/81 "2005-01-26T02:59:31Z")
Well, **Tapioca Dextrin** beat me to it, but my favorite weapon by far is the **Gravity Gun** from _Half Life 2_. “You can call it a zero point energy field manipulator, if you really want to. We designed it for handling radioactive materials, but we mainly use it for heavy lifting. it comes in handy for clearing out mine fields.” Yeah, not to mention sending buzz saws through headcrab zombies and hurling grenades back at Combine soldiers. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/82 "2005-01-26T03:02:31Z")
Vash the Stampede’s angel-arm. There’s a reason they call him the humanoid typhoon, y’know… ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/83 "2005-01-26T03:29:07Z")
> [@emekthian](#): > > Well, it sounds like Tachikoma to me, but then again I don’t speak Japanese and I have no idea how good or bad the dubbing is. As I remember, they’re called Tachikoma in the anime series, but were Fuchikoma in the original manga. (And I don’t speak Japanese, so I can’t tell you what signifigance the name change has, if any.) ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/84 "2005-01-26T03:29:52Z")
Sharks with frickin’ “laser” beams on their heads or Ka’ D’argo’s Qualta Blade/Rifle ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/85 "2005-01-26T03:30:23Z")
> [@](#): > > Not quite a weapon, but I would love to have some of Robert Heinlein’s Powered Armor. Specifically, the Twenty-Second Bomb. In the opening scene, the protagonist throws this into a building full of aliens, he figures it’s a church. It recites, in the alien’s language, “I am a twenty second bomb. I am a nineteen second bomb. I am an eighteen second bomb…” Better even than the nuclear hand grenades, if you ask me. I’ll also add: The hammer from _Hexen_. There’s never any reason to use anything else as a Warrior. High-damage, cheap, explosive ranged attacks, and even unpowered it can still kill in two hits at melee range. The two-barreled disintegrator, from _Ringworld_: The disintegrator is a digging tool; it fires a beam which suppresses the negative charge on the electron, causing solid matter to dissipate into a monatomic powder. The two-barrelled version can also fire a separate beam, which suppresses the positive charge on the proton. Both beams should not be used simultaneously, or a current would flow. The lightning sword Alric (briefly) uses in _Myth II: Soulblighter_. Cutting down a Myrkridia in two swings is good. Cutting down twenty Myrkridia in two swings is better. The Six-Fingered Sword, from _The Princess Bride_. The best sword since Excalibur, and made for the peculiarities of a single man’s hand… that single man ultimately, of course, being slain by it. The Sickle of the Valar, from _The Silmarillion_. See it, right up there? No, to the north. Also from _The Silmarillion_, the knife Angrist, iron-cleaver. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/86 "2005-01-26T04:55:28Z")
I think the ability to do the Vulcan nerve pinch would be pretty fricking sweet. And how about some sharks with lasers attached to their heads? Fembot LIght Saber God, I’m really a pathetic geek. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921.md?page=4)